Your Religion is False
Author: Joel Grus
The Humanist Book Club meets on the fourth Saturday of each month at 10:30 a.m. at the Mesa Main Library, 64 East 1st Street (East of Country Club Way at the intersection of N. Centennial Way -- N.W. corner)
From Amazon.com:
"The funniest book ever written about why your religion is false!
Whether you're a Christian or a Jew, a Muslim or a Hindu, a Rasta or a Jain, an Environmentalist or a Cheondoist, a Scientologist or a Giant Stone Head Worshipper, your religion is false.
But don't feel bad -- so is everyone else's! When you want to know what not to believe, this is the only book you need."
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| Past Selections |
07/24/10
A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present,
Author: Howard Zinn
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06/26/10
The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Birth of the Modern Arms Race
Author: Priscilla McMillan
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05/22/10
Don Quixote
Author: Miguel de Cervantes
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04/24/10
The Prince
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
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03/27/10
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
Author: Lewis Carroll
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02/27/10
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
Author: Michael J. Sandel
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01/23/10
The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
Author: Jeff Sharlet
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12/19/09
The Geography of Bliss
Author: Eric Weiner
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11/21/09
1421: The Year China Discovered America
Author: Gavin Menzies
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10/24/09
Letters from the Earth
Author: Mark Twain
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09/26/09
Aladdin's Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe through the Islamic World
Author: John Freely
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08/22/09
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Author: Jared Diamond
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07/25/09
Outliers
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
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06/27/09
A Free Life
Author: Ha Jin
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05/23/09
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World
Author: Michael Pollan
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04/25/09
One World: The Ethics of Globalization
Author: Peter Singer
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03/28/09
The Audacity of Hope
Author: Barack Obama
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02/15/09
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe
Author: Simon Singh
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01/18/09
Dreams from My Father
Author: Barack Obama
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10/12/08
Rendezvous with Rama
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
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09/14/08
The Periodic Table
Author: Primo Levi
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08/17/08
Break, Blow, Burn
Author: Camille Paglia
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07/20/08
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
Author: Charles Darwin
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06/08/08
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Author: Kim Edwards
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05/11/08
On the Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
Author: Carl Sagan
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04/13/08
Persepolis
Author: Marjane Satrapi
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03/23/08
The Uncommon Reader
Author: Alan Bennett
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02/03/08
Atlas Shrugged
Author: Ayn Rand
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01/13/08
The World Without Us
Author: Alan Weisman
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11/11/07
Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know
Author: E. D. Hirsch Jr
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10/14/07
While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West from Within
Author: Bruce Bawer
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09/16/07
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Author: Christopher Hitchens
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08/19/07
Three Cups of Tea
Author: Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
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07/15/07
Adam's Curse: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Destiny
Author: Bryan Sykes
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06/10/07
Suite Francaise
Author: Irčne Némirovsky
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05/13/07
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Author: John Perkins
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04/08/07
Crimes Against Logic
Author: Jamie Whyte
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03/11/07
John Adams
Author: David McCullough
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02/11/07
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
Author: John Allen Paulos
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01/14/07
Wake-Up Call: The Political Education of a 9/11 Widow
Author: Kristen Breitweiser
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11/12/06
The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
Author: Howard Bloom
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10/15/06
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
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09/17/06
American Theocracy
Author: Kevin Phillips
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08/13/06
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your History Textbook Got Wrong
Author: James W. Loewen
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07/16/06
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Author: Thomas Friedman
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06/11/06
Ingersoll the Magnificent
Author: Joseph Lewis
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05/21/06
Ecotopia
Author: Ernest Callenbach
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04/16/06
The Iron Heel
Author: Jack London
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03/26/06
State of War
Author: James Risen
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02/12/06
A Man Without a Country
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
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01/15/06
Guns, Germs and Steel
Author: Jared Diamond
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11/27/05
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
Author: Susan Jacoby
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10/23/05
The Truth About Jesus: Is He a Myth?
Author: Mangasar Magurditch Mangasarian
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09/18/05
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character
Author: Richard P. Feynman
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08/28/05
The Plot Against America
Author: Philip Roth
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07/17/05
America Declares Independence
Author: Alan Dershowitz
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06/18/05
In the Land of Second Chances
Author: George Shaffner
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05/29/05
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason
Author: Sam Harris
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04/24/05
Humanism as the Next Step
Author: Lloyd and Mary Morain
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03/27/05
Slant
Author: Greg Bear
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02/27/05
Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age
Author: Bill McKibben
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01/16/05
The Kite Runner
Author: Khaled Hosseini
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11/28/04
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
Author: Bill Bryson
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10/17/04
The Moral Animal, Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
Author: Robert Wright
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08/29/04
Life of Pi: A Novel
Author: Yann Martel
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06/20/04
REASON Magazine
Author: Nick Gillespie, Editor-in-Chief
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05/23/04
Angels & Demons
Author: Dan Brown
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04/11/04
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Author: Azar Nafisi
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03/14/04
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Author: Jon Krakauer
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02/15/04
The Bubble of American Supremacy
Author: George Soros
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01/18/04
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Author: Carl Sagan
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